Monday, August 9, 2010

What are you afraid of?

While dealing with this topic, I remembered one of my friend while studying BE. We used to nick him as phobia or phobs.
Fear is an indispensable element in the human make up. It paralysis the spring of action. It builds its own phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself. It tears personality to pieces.
you see how irrational fear grips very many people. The individual may realize its irrationality but is unable to dispel it. Such a fear is termed phobia. It is a persistent, excessive, abnormal and panic-like fear. A phobic reaction is then a persistent fear of some objects or situation. which present no actual danger to the patient but in which the danger is magnified out of all proportions to its actual seriousness.

1. acrophobia: Morbid fear of high places or heights.
2. agoraphobia: Morbid fear of wide open places.
3. algophobia: Morbid fear of pain
4. anglophobia: Morbid fear of England and English things.
5. antropophobia: Morbid fear of mankind
6. astraphobia: Morbid fear of lighting, thunder and storms
7. astrophobia: Morbid fear of celestial spaces.
8. ballistophobia: Morbid fear of missiles.
9. chirophobia: Morbid fear of hands.
10. bibliophobia: Morbid fear of books.
11. claustrophobia: Morbid fear of closed, confined places.
12. ergophobia: Morbid fear of work.
13. dendrophobia: Morbid fear of trees.
14. gynephobia: Morbid fear of women.
15. hemantophobia: Morbid fear of blood.
16. hippophobia: Morbid fear of horses.
17. monophobia: morbid fear of being alone.
18. mysophobia: Morbid fear of contamination or germs.
19. nyctophobia: Morbid fear of darkness.
20. ochlophobia: morbid fear of crowd.
21. panophobia: Morbid fear of everything in general.
22. pathophobia: Morbid fear of diseases.
23. pedophobia: Morbid fear of children.
24. photophobia: morbid fear of light.
25. podophobia: Morbid fear of feet.
26. pyrophobia: Morbid fear of fire.
27. sitophobia: Morbid fear of food.
28. Syphilophobia: Morbid fear of syphilis
29. trichophobis: Morbid fear of hair.
30. triskaidekaphobia: Morbid fear of the number 13.
31. xenophobia: Morbid fear of foreigners.
32. zoophobia: morbid fear of animals or some particular animals.